Two years after the EP "AN DAS ANGSTLAND" ('To The Angstland') Berlin-based artist Charlotte Brandi releases her second studio album "AN DEN ALPTRAUM" ('To the Nightmare') and with it not only her first long player in German, but also a work produced with FLINTA*-only participation. It is about men, women, fear, money, death and the contribution to the revolution. This record, at least, is one. 

The decision to realize the album only with female or female read was one against convenience and for the overdue paradigm shift in the music world. "Cultural recasting is not born out of comfort and to my knowledge there is not yet an all-female produced album on the German market. And if I were 14 today, it would teach me that it can be done," says Charlotte Brandi. Behind this idealism is also an artist who is no longer up for power struggles in the studio with male colleagues. "For the first time, I didn't feel like a little girl during an album production," Brandi says of her fruits of consistent feminist process optimization. 

Thematically, Brandi shaves the stubbly present and continues with the tone of her 2020 EP, becoming even more demanding, sharp and precise. In the hall of mirrors of self-designs, she recognizes and burns some of them, as in "DIE LETZTE BRUECKE" ('The...  more

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releases February 10, 2023 

written, composed and produced by Charlotte Brandi 
engineered by Miche Moreno & Amanda Merdzan 
mixed by Kiri Stensby 
mastered by Enyang Urbiks 

vocals, keys, guitars, bass, synthesizer, dulcimer, flute, piano, celli, percussions - Charlotte Brandi 
guitar on track 3, 4, 5, 7 & 9 - Isabel Ment 
bass on track 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 9 - Shanice Ruby Bennett 
drums on tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 9 - Aine Fujioka 
drums on tracks 2 & 10 - Linda-Philomène Tsoungui 
guest vocals on track 10 - Stella Sommer 

songs 3,4,5,7,8,9 recorded at Tricone Studios